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2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)
Entry ID:
CIESIN_SEDAC_ESI_2000
Summary
Abstract:
The 2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) is an exploratory effort to construct an index that measures the ability of a nation's economy to achieve sustainable development, with the long term goal of finding a single indicator for environmental sustainability analagous to that of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The index covering 56 countries is a composite measure of the current ...
 Purpose: To test the feasibility of creating a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability.
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator:
World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Leaders for Tomorrow Environment Task Force, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP)/Yale University, and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University
Dataset Title:
2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)
Dataset Release Date:
2000
Dataset Release Place:
New Haven, CT
Dataset Publisher:
Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP)/Yale University
Version:
2000.00
Data Presentation Form:
document
Online Resource:
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/esi-pilot-environmental-s...
Temporal Coverage
Start Date:
1978-01-01
Stop Date:
1999-12-31
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Instrument
Quality
Canterbury Museum holds over 2000 rock specimens from Antarctica. Most of these represent the lithologies of the Beacon Supergroup of rocks and were collected during several NZARP events over a number of seasons in the 1970s and 1980s. The collections were made at a number of sites in the Transantarctic Mountains of Victoria Land. In addition, small collections were made at Cape Adare and Cape ...
Access Constraints
Access to samples follows the specifications of Canterbury Museum.
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Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
Data Center
Personnel
Role:
INVESTIGATOR
Phone:
+64 3 364 2987 ext 3892
Fax:
+64 3 364 2769
Email:
margaret.bradshaw at canterbury.ac.nz
Contact Address:
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
City:
Christchurch
Postal Code:
8140
Country:
New Zealand
Publications/References
Bradshaw, M. 2010. Devonian trace fossils of the Horlick Formation, Ohio Range, Antarctica: Systematic description and palaeoenvironmental interpretation. Ichnos 17: 58-114.
Bradshaw, M. Ohio Range party worked near Pole. Antarctic 9(1): 7-9, 1980. Bradshaw, M.A. McCartan, L. The depositional environment of the lower Devonian Horlick Formation, Ohio Range. in: ... Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date:
2005-09-22
Last DIF Revision Date:
2010-11-01
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